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Farina Sergio (b. 1926-09-08 / d. 2012-07-03) alias Sergio Pininfarina
He was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life. In 1965 it was Sergio Pininfarina who personally persuaded Enzo Ferrari to adopt a "mid-engined" engine configuration for a new line of road cars, with the engine positioned behind the driver, but ahead of the rear wheels. The resulting Ferrari Dino Berlinette Speciale was presented at the Paris Motor Show in October, although it would be another two years before the cars were offered for sale. After his father's death in 1966, Pininfarina became chairman of the company. In 2006 Sergio and his son Andrea, who died in 2008 were named Honorary Chairmen of Pininfarina,
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Born 1937-06-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. He escaped death in the February 3, 1959 plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when he gave up his seat to Big Bopper.
Jennings suffered from worsening diabetes that had ended all but abbreviated touring. On December 19, 2001, his left foot was amputated in a Phoenix, Arizona, hospital due to infection arising from his diabetes. Jennings died in his sleep of diabetic complications in Chandler, Arizona. He is interred in the Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Arizona.
Jennings had a history of substance abuse, though he was clean by the mid-1980s. He continued to be active in the recording industry, forming the group The Highwaymen with fellow "Outlaws" Nelson, Cash, and Kris Kristofferson. Jennings released his last solo studio album in 1998.
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Born 1927-08-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British actor who played numerous film roles and gained acclaim as the TV detective in the five-series-long ITV program Van der Valk that spanned 20 years.
He played the necktie murderer in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.
Some obituaries (e.g. BBC Online) incorrectly stated his year of birth as 1931, the British Film Institute website provides definitive year of birth as 1927, based on a check of the birth and marriage certificates held at the Family Records Centre, London.
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Born 1930-08-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO, GCStJ, CD, was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II. Margaret was often viewed as a controversial member of the British royal family. Her divorce in 1978 received much negative publicity, and she was romantically associated with several men. Her health gradually deteriorated in the final two decades of her life. She was a heavy smoker for most of her adult life and had a lung operation in 1985, a bout of pneumonia in 1993, and at least three strokes between 1998 and 2001. She died at King Edward VII's Hospital in London after suffering a final stroke on 9 February 2002.
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Born 1973-05-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
She was a Houston-raised American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1994, and Playboy's Video Playmate of the Month for September 1996. She appeared in several video productions from Playboy Home Video from 1996 to 2000.
Bridges died at the luxurious mansion of Edward Nahem, a longtime acquaintance of Hugh Hefner. Nahem found Bridges dead in bed when he came home that evening. Although Playboy stated that she died of natural causes, the official coroner's report listed her cause of death as "acute intoxication by the combined effects of heroin, methamphetamine, meperidine and alprazolam".
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Born 1913-03-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a British racing driver from England. He participated in 13 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on July 18, 1953. He scored a total of 5 championship points, all of which came in the 1956 season.
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Born 1968-06-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a French actor, son of Claude Berri. Rassam is his mother's lastname.
In 2000, he fell from the third floor of the hotel Raphael in Paris.
He was left paraplegic, and commited suicide a couple of years after his accident.
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Born 1922-05-16. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Poniatowski approved in September 1983 the merger of the electoral list RPR-UDF with the far-right National Front (FN) party, headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen, during the partial municipal election of Dreux.
French quote: « Le danger fasciste en France ne vient pas de la droite, il vient de la gauche, dont c'est la vocation d'esprit et de méthode. Il faut donc voter contre les fascistes de gauche. »
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Born 1920-10-15. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1909-01-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
After the killing of Camus and Gallimard in a road accident, Etiemble made investigations. He said he'd got the evidence that the car Facel Vega was a true coffin on wheels
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Born 1923-11-04. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Freddy Heineken was a major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.
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Born 1919-03-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Heckart died of lung cancer at her home in Norwalk, Connecticut at the age of 82.
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Born 1917-07-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Paul Hubschmid was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of My Fair Lady. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens of films and television series between 1938 and 1991. Many of these were German and International productions.
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Born 1927-04-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Mayol committed suicide by hanging himself in Elba, Italy, at the age of 74. His ashes were spread over the Tuscany coast.
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Born 1927-10-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
In 2001 he died, aged 74, on his houseboat on the Seine and was interred in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
In 2003 Sophie Daumier was interred in the adjacent tomb.
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Born 1955-07-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a motorcycle racer who turned into building his own bikes. He crashed in the fog, while piloting his plane from Paris to Nogaro. He contributed to the design of the Renault Spider.
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Born 1923-06-17. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
He died 3 months after an accident in Alexis Gruss' circus. An Elephant seized him with her trunk and hurled him to the floor.
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Born 1941-01-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman.
She died in Sacramento, California, from melanoma.
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Born 1948-10-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
he was a New Zealand yachtsman who led his country to two successive America’s Cup victories. He previously won the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989, and the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 by setting the fastest time around the world of 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds on catamaran Enza. Blake was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 for services to yachting, and received an honorary doctorate in 2000 from AUT University.
Pirates shot and killed Blake while he was on an environmental exploration trip in South America, monitoring global warming and pollution for the United Nations. The two-month expedition was anchored off Macapá, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon delta, waiting to clear customs after a trip up the Amazon river. At around 9 pm a group of six to eight armed, masked robbers wearing balaclavas and crash helmets boarded the Seamaster. As one of the robbers held a gun to the head of a crewmember, Blake sprang from the cabin wielding a rifle used to ward off polar bears. He shot one of the assailants in the hand before the rifle malfunctioned; he was then fatally shot in the back by assailant Ricardo Colares Tavares. The boarders injured two other crew members with knives, and the remaining seven were unhurt.
The only booty the attackers seized from Seamaster was a 15 hp outboard motor and some watches from the crew. Authorities eventually captured the pirates and sentenced them to an average of 32 years in prison each; Tavares, the man who fired the fatal shots, received a sentence of 36 years 9 months.
Prior to the attack, the yacht's crew had been very careful when travelling up the river and back down again; they always had crew members on watch. Only upon return to 'civilisation' did they relax their guard.
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Born 1921-00-00. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Best remembered as a French crossword puzzle author. He once met with Hemingway who said to him : "I am not Hannibal".
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Born 1919-09-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
John Mitchum was an American actor from the 1940s to the 1970s in film and television. Early in his career, he was credited as Jack Mitchum. Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet Mitchum (née Gunderson) and James Thomas Mitchum, who was killed in a railyard accident seven months before he was born. He was the younger brother of Julie Mitchum and Robert Mitchum. He served in the United States Army, 361st Harbor Craft Company, in Florida and Hawaii. Mitchum died after complications of three strokes.
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Born 1924-06-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer